שְׁמוֹת‎ NAMES 

Join us for an evening of movement, soul and redemption on June 14th 2025 at 7pm

Doors 630PM 
Performance Begins: 7PM 
With a short talk back to follow.

Inspired by the biblical story of Shemot or the Exodus story, this exhilarating dance theater work performed by five eclectic dance artists explores how our own ancestral experiences of bondage, freedom and redemption continues to shape our present day lives. This work was first commissioned by the Brand Library Dance Series in May 2023. Since then it has been performed at Highways Performance Space in Psychopomp’s CHAOS! Festival in August 2023, Temple Akiba in Culver City in 2024 and The Glorya Kaufman Performing Arts Center in 2024.

This performance is in part supported by the City of Burbank and the Cultural Arts Grant

The greatest gift we can give our children is not money or possessions, but a story – a real story, not a fantasy, one that connects them to us and to a rich heritage of high ideals… We are heirs to a story that inspired a hundred generations of our ancestors and eventually transformed the Western world. What you forget, you lose. The West is forgetting its story. We must never forget ours.

-Rabbi Jonathan Sacks